Machine for covering dress-stays.



No. 767,708. PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904.

W. F. OSBORNE 6: G. A. KELLY.

MACHINE FOR COVERING DRESS STAYS.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 16, 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

VVILBUR FISK OSBORNE AND CHARLES A. KELLY, ANSONIA, CONNECTI- OUT, ASSIGNORS TO THE UNION FABRIC COMPANY, OF ANSONIA, (JON- NEOTIOUT, A CORPORATION.

MACHINE FOR COVERING DRESS-STAYS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 767,708, dated August 16, 1904.

Application filed May 16, 1904.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILBUR FIsK Os- BORNE and OHARLEs A. KELLY, of Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Covering Dress-' Stays; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the figures of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a broken side view of a machine for covering dress-stays constructed in accordance with our invention; Fig. 2, a top or plan view of the same; Fig. 3. a broken sectional view on the line a Z) of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a side view of the lower feed-roll with clamping-disk removed; Fig. 5, a broken View of the righthand end of the machine; Fig. 6, an enlarged sectional view through the frame, showing a side View of the cutter; Fig. 7, a view illustrating the arrangement of the wires with respect to the covering.

This invention relates to an improvement in covering dress-stays, and particularly to that class which consists of a wire stiffener covered I on opposite sides with paper or cloth, the

ends of the paper or cloth projecting beyond the ends of the wires, and is an improvement on the invention shown and described in Patent No. 488,288, granted December 20, 1892, to George O. Schneller. The machine of the Schneller patent was particularly adapted for covering a single wire, but might be used for covering two or more wires in the same strip; but in the use of such a machine in covering two or more wires, owing to the variation in the thickness of the wires, they will be fed irregularly, so that the ends will not stand in the same line.

The object of this invention is the construction and arrangement of feeding-rolls whereby two or more wires may be uniformly fed and compensate for variation in thickness; and the invention consists in the construc- Serial No. 208,177. (No model.)

tion, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out our invention we employ an upper feed-roll 2 and a lower feed-roll consisting of rings 3, 4, and 5, corresponding in number to the number of wires to be fed, the combined several rings also corresponding in width to the width of the upper feed-roll 2. These rings are mounted upon a hub 6, keyed to a shaft 7 and having a flange 8 somewhat smaller in diameter than the external diameter of the rings and against which the rings are held by a plate 9, the plate 9 and flange 8 forming, as it might be said, a groove in which the rings are placed. If three rings are employed, the internal diameter of the central ring corresponds to the diameter of the hub, while the internal diameters of the outer rings 3 and 5 are slightly greater than the diameter of the hub, so as to permit a certain amount of vertical movement thereon, and each of these outer rings is supported at the bottom .the same as the patent before referred to except that the rollers will be of a width corresponding to the width of the stays to be formed. Thus the lower strand or ribbon 14E, of paper, cloth, or other suitable material, passes over a roller 15, which applies glue to its upper face, and thence passes between folders 16 and between pressure-rollers 17 and 18, while the strand or ribbon 19 passes over the said roller 18, which unites it with the ribbon 14:. The wires 20, fed by the feedroll 2, are severed a cutter 21, while the completed stay is severed from the strip by the cutter 22. The operating-shafts 23 and 24 are connected by gears 25, 26, and 27, the shaft 23 being driven by the usual pulleys 28. On the shaft 23 is a bevel-gear 29, meshing with a bevel-gear 30, which drives the shaft 7. On this shaft 7 is a gear 31, meshing with the gear 32 on the shaft 7 a of the feed-roller 2. Also on the shaft 23 is abevel-gear 33, meshing with a bevel-gear 34, operating the pres- The sure-roll 17, which is geared with the roller 18. On the shaft 2 are cams 35 and 36, which respectively operate the cutters 21 and 22 through levers 37 and 38. As in the patent before referred to, the wires 20 are shorter than the strips of covering material 14 and 19. As the wires are fed between the feed-rollers the rings 3 and 5 will bear with yielding but continuous pressure against the roll 2, so that if there are any variations in the thickness of the wire it will not bind between the feedrollers, and if one isthicker than the other two it will not prevent the other two from feeding, or if thinner than the other two it will be itself fed. We are therefore enabled 'to cover three wires in a single strip and have their ends in alinement.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In amachine for covering dress-stays the combination with paper-feed rolls,of two wirefeed rolls, the lower feed-roll comprising a hub and two or more rings upon said hub, said rings of greater d1ameter than the diameter of sald hub, and means for supportlng said rings, substantially as described.

2. A machine for covering dress-stays including an upper feed-roll and a lower feedroll said lower feed-roll comprising a hub, a plurality of rings on said hub, one of thesaid rings closely fitting said hub and another of greater internal diameter than the diameter of the hub, a pair of rollers upon which said rings rest, a yoke supporting said rollers, and a spring beneath said yoke and tending to lift the ring against the upper feed-roll, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILBUR FISK OSBORNE. CHARLES A. KELLY. Witnesses:

E. M. CHILD, F. D. Downs. 

